Lock-front turnover collar.



0. H. KEEP, JR. LOCK FRONT TUBNOVER COLLAR. APPLICATION rILnp 313.28,1910.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

OLIVER H. KEEP, JIL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOCK-FRONT TURNOVER COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

Application filed February 28, 1910. Serial No. 546.464.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. KEEP, J12, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Lock- Iiront TurnoverCollars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lock-front turnover collars.

In lock front turn-over collars, particularly those whose front edgesare intended to be disposed closely together when on the wearer, muchdifficulty is experienced in but toning the locking end of the collarwithout soiling or bending the collar, besides which the buttoning ofthe locking flap or end is not easily accomplished. It has been proposedto overcome this defect and annoyance in collars of this type byproviding a slot with parallel edges extending from the buttouhole ofthe locking flap down to the lower edge thereof, but it has been foundin practice that a collar of this type readily becomes damaged whenbeing laundried and that the expedient employed does not satisfactorilyperform its office because the parts of the flap adjacent the slotleading to the buttonhole become bent and do not securely engage thecollar button and the use of a buttonhole gives no latitude ofadjustment of the collar to make it tighter or looser and in thatrespect has all of the disadvantages of an ordinary buttonhole.

The present invention has for its object the provision of a lock-frontturn-over collar Whose locking flap is of novel construction, has nobuttonhole, and is so formed that the collar will be securely retained,may be slightly tightened or loosened by the tension of the necktie, andcan be easily secured on the shirt or removed, without danger or soilingor bending the collar, regardless of how close the front edges of thecollar may be adapted to lie when the collar is closed, in addition towhich, no parts are provided which will be liable to injury duringlaundryin The invention is carried out by the provision on a lock-frontturn-over collar of a locking flap which has no buttonhole such ascommonly used to engage the front collar button, and whose lower edge isprovided with a cut-out or cut-away part providing a shoulder, so thatthe locking flap may be readily manipulated when being inserted underthe fold of the other end of the collar and the cut-away edge made toengage with the neck of the collar button back of the head thereof andthe shoulder by its engagement with the collar button tending to preventseparation of the collar ends and to insure security of the lockingaction by foreing the locking llap snugly into engagement with the otherend of the collar.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a front view, the ends of thecollar being broken away and their outlines shown in dotted lines, thelocking l'lap being secured by the collar button; and Fig. 2, a viewlike Fig. l. of the collar with its ends separated.

The collar 1 is of a well-known construction. except for theimprovements I have made thereon. ()ne of the collar ends or flaps 2 hasthe usual buttonhole 3 to be engaged with the button t carried by theshirt neckband. The other, or locking, llap 5, instead of being providedwith a buttonhole to button over the collar button 4, as has heretoforebeen the case, has no buttonhole whatever, but is designed to be enteredbetween the folds of the other end of the collar to form the lock jointand its securing means consists of a cut-away or cut out portion 6 inits lower edge of its neckband part, said out out portion beingpreferably provided with one or more inclined shoulders 7 and 8, thelower edge 9 gradually sloping to the. usual lower edge of the neckbandpart of the collar. The cut-away 6 is of such size that it will permit aslight loosening or tightening of the collar, according to therequirements of the wearer, by adjustment of the necktie.

When the collar is placed around the shirt. neckband, it is firstbuttoned at the back and then the flap 9 is buttoned by fastening thebuttonhole 3 over the collar button l. The lock flap or tongue 5 may nowbe easily inserted in the other end of the collar and. readilynninipulated to dispose the cut-away 6 so that it will receive thecollar button 4t and the shoulders 7 and S will be disposed inengagement with the shank of the collar button, back of the headthereof. The inclination of the shoulders 7 and 8 tends to wedge theflap 5 upwardly and increase the locking action so that any accidentaldisengagement is prevented.

My collar is essentially different from others previously known to theart in that the locking flap has no buttonhole nor any modifieationthereof, the retention of the flap being effected by the shape of thelower edge of the flap.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A look front turn-over collar having a buttonhole in one of itsfastening ends and its other or looking end provided with a shoulderedcut-away in its lower edge, said cutaway being substantially parallelwith the upper edge of the collar whereby longitudinal adjustment of thecollar is permitted, and located at substantially the same distance fromsaid upper edge as the buttonhole is spaced from said upper edge, saidshoulder extending downward from said cut-away.

In testimony wherof, I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

OLIVER H. KEEP, JR. Vitnesses J OHN H. SAMUELSEN, JOHN J. COSTELLO.

